For Your Consideration

Ratings & Reviews

Ratings & Reviews

"For Your Consideration" is populated with the usual assortment of Christopher Guest oddballs and some genuinely funny beats, but something is off in the mix; the film simultaneously registers as bleaker and less memorable than the filmmaker's other work. Perhaps it's the absence of the mockumentary format, but I had a similar feeling as when I'm watching another 'not bad but not great' Woody Allen picture.

This film uneasily straddles between black comedy and a bleak look at contemporary Hollywood, but the character study, as always, is detailed and rich, and certain scenes are pulled off with an awkward grace. Not a favorite, but not a failure either.